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Daniel Martin Fairbairn

Artwork by Daniel Martin Fairbairn
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Who is he?

My name is Daniel Fairbairn, Father, Husband and enthusiastically expressive artist. 

 


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It's close!
It's close!
about 8 years ago
Beginnings end..
Beginnings end..
about 8 years ago

Here's the result of last nights session, inspired by my good friend and exceptional photographer Kate

Abstract night
Abstract night
about 8 years ago

Sometimes it's the right thing to improvise and follow your feelings, and on this occasion I did just that.

Dawn...
Dawn...
about 8 years ago
Working, in progress
Working, in progress
about 8 years ago
Good morning
Good morning
about 8 years ago
Having impulsive fun....
Having impulsive fun....
about 8 years ago

And so that is how this painting arrived. Late at night/ early in the morning, coffee drunk and a coiled spring unwound as a finished canvas is lifted from the easel, I then decided to stand up and paint this wee guy.

Getting set for the exhibition
Getting set for the exhibition
about 8 years ago

I've been having some wonderful moments in the studio recently, letting go and trying something new. It's interesting to be in that frame of mind, and to work instinctively. 

Commission. Permission to play
Commission. Permission to play
about 8 years ago

Once I had found this painting, it felt like I had finally laid spinning wheels to the road, It was an incredible energy. Painting it has been a wonderful journey, and I've learned a great deal from creating this piece. Fiona and Brinny are in love with it, and I couldn't have hoped for a better response. 

...and breathe.
about 8 years ago

While all this was going on, I had another sale on the site as another customer placed an order for a large print of Last Light. This convinced me I deserved a dram.

Late exchange..The journey of a canvas
Late exchange..The journey of a canvas
about 8 years ago

This is always a good and a bad time. It's good because the work at the canvas you've been painting is done, and for a moment you can catch your breath, maybe stay in bed and sleep instead of stay up late painting, and wake up feeling rested. 

Pass the coffee, with extra coffee.....
about 8 years ago

I think that may be why this painting in particular makes me feel quite emotional. The buyer fell in love with it immediately. That kind of reaction from someone about your art, which is tied to so many of your own emotions, fear, accomplishment, enjoyment, struggle, joy, creates such a palpable reaction in yourself

Almost there...

June 17, 2016

The coffee machine has never worked so hard. Working until the early hours and tweeting late night DJ's (thank you https://twitter.com/maryannehobbs) all begins to get normal.

As does being hit in the face with a car by my youngest lad, Callan, because I've dozed off on the sofa before tea time again. Seeing a link I'd posted on Facebook to an Instagram post from Lesley Ann Parker of http://www.leap-gallery.com reach over 10,500 views on Facebook, and as shown in the picture above, featuring as Artist of the Month in http://everlongart.bigcartel.com] Everlong

I've been having an interesting time, with my last painting, Silent Wander, being painted using some Gel Retarder, which slows down the drying time of the paint, allowing me to work the blending longer. It's allowed me to take extra time to really work in some extra colours and build a sense of luminescence and body into the sky.

I collected my first run of prints today, and will be enlisting the help of my Guru Wrapping specialist Wife when it's time to enfold them in cellophane. They look so crisp and new, and with the added surrealism of seeing my painting reproduced, makes the whole scenario quite bizarre. 

Well, that's it for now, I had better go make some more coffee, and get back to the easel.

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